10 Best content delivery network you should know

A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers that deliver pages and other Web content to a user, based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the web page and the content delivery server.
To minimize the distance between the visitors and your website’s server, a CDN stores a cached version of its content in multiple geographical locations. Each location contains a number of caching servers responsible for content delivery to visitors within its proximity.
Here is a list of the 10 best commercial content delivery networks.

MaxCDN is a content delivery network provider, based in Los Angeles, California. The company emphasizes reducing the latency of rich-content delivery. MaxCDN’s servers are located worldwide, reaching over 90 countries, with a high peer capacity to handle any given load. There are plugins available for all major systems and platforms, including WordPress, Drupal, Magento and lots more.
If your website has a global audience, you’ll appreciate the large number of server locations that are distributed across the US, South America Europe, Asia, and Australia.

They are a good free CDN service provider without a doubt. It’s recommended only for people who can’t pay for premium services. CloudFlare has servers in 76 data centers that are dotted around the world.
CloudFlare protects and accelerates your website, and once it’s part of the CloudFlare community, your web traffic is routed through its global network. It’s simple to set up, and only requires a change to your DNS Name server settings.

KeyCDN is a global content delivery network which mission is to develop and engineer a content delivery solution that is accessible to as many people as possible. KeyCDN is available on a pay-as-you-go pricing structure. This means there’s no set monthly fee, and you only pay for the data you transfer.It is simple to configure and custom SSL is free.

KeyCDN can handle regular static HTTP and HTTP/2 content, HLS and HTTP streaming. Their network of servers spans the four main regions of the globe, helping to ensure the least amount of hops between your content and your end users.

Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service that protects websites and safeguards web applications and their data from attacks and improves their performance by enhancing user experience. Incapsula includes a security platform with a web application firewall, DDoS mitigation, content delivery network, and global load balancer to maximize performance.
With 27 data centers across the globe, Incapsula has more scrubbing centers than most other DDoS mitigation services we reviewed. Incapsula can protect your website from the hacker, help webmaster blocked many attacks like SQL injection, XSS, make the websites become stable and block bad bots connect.

Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to your viewers with low latency and high transfer speeds. It’s considered a safe pair of hands for some of the biggest and most well-known websites out there. CloudFront integrates with the Amazon Web Services (AWS), also from Amazon.
You can get started with CloudFront in minutes, using the same AWS tools you are already familiar with – APIs, AWS Management Console, AWS CloudFormation, CLIs, and SDKs.

CacheFly is one of the fastest, most reliable CDN in the industry. There are no long-term contracts required as with many other CDN providers.
With an extensive selection of services, CacheFly offers one of the most flexible solutions to your content delivery network needs. If you’re looking for a reliable partner to help streamline your web site’s content delivery, then CacheFly is one of the best CDN options. Easy third party integration like WordPress and instant account activation.

CND77 aims to both small to medium-sized website owners and larger, high traffic online properties.
CND77 aims to cater to both small to medium-sized website owners and larger, high traffic online properties. The powerful API allows you to connect to your apps, view and store logs, manage your CDN and track your analytics and data. To help you monitor performance and keep on top of costs, CND77 offers a good set of reporting and analytics tools.

Photon is an image acceleration and editing service for sites hosted on WordPress.com or on Jetpack-connected WordPress sites. If you don’t need a full CDN service but would like a way to speed up your website by offloading the delivery of your image files, then the free Photon service is a good option.
Once you’ve activated Photon on your website, any images used in your posts and pages will automatically be sent to the global WordPress.com cloud. This takes a load off your web host and should improve the loading times experienced by your visitors.

Edgecast is a distributed global network of servers built for speed, security and scalability. It handles traffic spikes, secures websites and helps accelerate the performance of web applications. The Edgecast network is improved that way that it’s now available to purge content and to keep it up-to-date 40-80x faster than then its competitors.

Swarmify is the first CDN based on WebRTC, a protocol that allows browsers to communicate with each other via JavaScript. Swarmify has also developed some other features to save bandwidth and make content delivery more efficient.
The unique Hive Cache means the first user that arrives on a site and detects asset replacement will immediately signal the rest of the swarm to expire the previous file. Swarmify is hosted on the Amazon EC2 platform for optimal uptime and load speed.

Anwar Yakkiparamban is the founder of Lauyou Learning. Prior to Lauyou learning, Anwar worked at ARD Engineering & Development, Qatar. He holds bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Govt. Engineering College Idukki.